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English Dictionary: languor by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
languor
n
  1. a relaxed comfortable feeling [syn: languor, dreaminess]
  2. a feeling of lack of interest or energy
    Synonym(s): languor, lassitude, listlessness
  3. inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy; "the general appearance of sluggishness alarmed his friends"
    Synonym(s): languor, lethargy, sluggishness, phlegm, flatness
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Languor \Lan"guor\, n. [OE. langour, OF. langour, F. langueur,
      L. languor. See Languish.]
      1. A state of the body or mind which is caused by exhaustion
            of strength and characterized by a languid feeling;
            feebleness; lassitude; laxity.
  
      2. Any enfeebling disease. [Obs.]
  
                     Sick men with divers languors.            --Wyclif (Luke
                                                                              iv. 40).
  
      3. Listless indolence; dreaminess. Pope. [bd] German dreams,
            Italian languors.[b8] --The Century.
  
      Syn: Feebleness; weakness; faintness; weariness; dullness;
               heaviness; lassitude; listlessness.
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